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‘Inside No. 9’ Returns With More Cunning Puzzles

In an interview, the creators Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton discuss the new season and their love of narrative challenges. “It’s been like writing school for us,” Pemberton said.

By Darryn King

The BBC anthology series “Inside No. 9” feels like “The Twilight Zone” or “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” if they had been written by Will Shortz or Erno Rubik. Episodes turn out to be deviously constructed puzzles, whose pieces fall into place only at the final moment. Twists give way to bigger twists. Major reveals upend everything that has come before. One genre of story turns out to be disguised as another.

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